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How do I migrate data from an old blog to Serendipity blog?
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:46 am
by danaMmm
I'm currently using simplephpblog with aplus.net hosting, but I would like to change to Serendipity -- still with aplus.net hosting -- how do I do it without loosing all my previous post?
Re: How do I migrate data from an old blog to Serendipity bl
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:02 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Sadly there currently is no importer for this blog system. I couldn't find it on google, what is its homepage?
You can import generic RSS feeds into serendipity from any blog system that provides a RSS feed - you will then get everything that is contained in your RSS feeds (so only entries, no authors or categories can be imported this way).
If I know more about that system I might tell you if it's easy to write an importer for that system...
Best regards,
Garin
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:42 pm
by danaMmm
The other blog developer's homepage is at
http://www.simplephpblog.com/
Thanks for your help!
Dave
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:09 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Ah, I remember that. This has a flat-file structure which is a pain in the back to parse for foreign applications. Sadly this is nothing to quickly write-up.
Do you know some PHP? Then I could tell you how to write an importer for the files.
The other way I outlined, RSS import, should still work though - if simplephpblog is able to emit an RSS feed containing all entries.
Best regards,
Garvin